If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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